Round Top Station
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| image_caption = By 1916, Round Top Station had a siding of the Round Top Branch that used the Gettysburg Electric Railway
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| location = Wheatfield Road
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Round Top Station was the southernmost station of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad and was located west of a blacksmith shop along the Taneytown Road that was in operation in 1880.{{cite web |url=http://www.landisvalleymuseum.org/tour_bs.htm |title=Tour Landis Valley Museum |publisher=Landisvalleymuseum.org |access-date=2012-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727013507/http://www.landisvalleymuseum.org/tour_bs.htm |archive-date=2011-07-27}}
History
Despite the 1882 survey of a rail route from the "H. J., H. and G. Railroad" to Round Top, Pennsylvania,{{cite news |date=June 17, 1957 |title=Out of the Past: Seventy-Five Years Ago |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=908mAAAAIBAJ&pg=2412,996535&dq=saw-mill+round-top+gettysburg&hl=en |access-date=2011-04-26 |quote=Joseph S. Gitt, of New Oxford, is making a survey for the H. J., H. and G. Railroad company, of a route for the proposed extension of their track to Round Top. Two lines are thought of -- one running east, the other west of the town.}} for the Round-Top Railroad Company,{{cite news |last=Gitt |first=Joseph S |date=February 9, 1884 |publication-date=February 19, 1884 |title=Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8lMmAAAAIBAJ&pg=4488,255825&dq=fuller+round-top+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler; Adams County Railroads: Concluded |access-date=2011-07-05 |quote=In August, 1882, I made surveys [for] the purpose of extending the {{sic|Gettysburg Railroad}} to Round-Top for excursion purposes [by] the “Round-Top Railroad Company,” to build a line from Gettysburg… capital stock, $25,000, and A. W. Eichelberger President. The directors are Wm. Grumbine, Reuben Young, Peter Flickinger, B. M. Wirt, R. A. Eichelberger, H. A. Young, David Wills, H. D. Scott.}} the competing G&H RR purchased property from Lewis A. Bushman in April 1884 for excursions (Little Round Top Park), and their Round Top Branch was instead being constructed in May 1884.{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_VMmAAAAIBAJ&pg=1507,753004&dq=round-top-branch&hl=en |title=Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search}} The station warehouse was completed June 21, 1884{{cite news |date=June 24, 1884 |title=Local Flashes, Ox Roast on the Fourth, & Excursions |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=9qGwjJavaBUC&dat=18840624&printsec=frontpage |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |page=3 |access-date=2011-02-25 |quote=D. S. Fuhrman…on the Gilbert property…will sell tickets covering fifteen baths for one dollar.}} (burned February 22/23, 1889;{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=Bushman+fire+1889+%22round+top%22 |title=Search results |website=www.google.com}} {{Better source needed|date=August 2022}} rebuilt by August 1891); and to the rear of the warehouse{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0XEmAAAAIBAJ&pg=4952,111837&dq=trolley+1894+gettysburg&hl=en |title=The Star and Sentinel - Google News Archive Search}} in 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway began trolley operations The railroad-owned property along the north side of Wheatfield Rd extended eastward from the railway and had frontage along the Taneytown Rd at the corner,{{cite map |publisher=Julius Bien & Co. Lith. |year=1904 |title=Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg |cartography=[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@OR(@field(AUTHOR+@3(Gettysburg+National+Military+Park+Commission++))+@field(OTHER+@3(Gettysburg+National+Military+Park+Commission++))) Gettysburg National Park Commission]: Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A |location=New York }} site of the 1895 Ollie Rouzer blacksmith shop.{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gGgmAAAAIBAJ&pg=2262,322729&dq=rosensteel+round-top&hl=en |title=Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search}} The north-south steamtrain railbed at Round Top became the east edge of the Gettysburg National Military Park (GNMP), which is adjacent to the private tracts along the Taneytown Road; and between 1904 and 1916 a siding was created at the station. The station operated until {{circa|1942}} when the branch's abandonment application was filed.{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=7_FrD3gH8REC&dat=19420202&printsec=frontpage |title=Gettysburg Times - Google News Archive Search}}
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{{cite news |date=April 30, 1952 |title=Story of Old Trolley Line Told to Club |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s9wlAAAAIBAJ&pg=3080,46849&dq=rosensteel+pavilion+dancing+gettysburg&hl=en |access-date=2011-02-26}} NOTE: North of the Round Top station on the Round Top Branch was the Hancock Station near the battlefield's Vermont Memorial on Grand Central Avenue ("Hancock" Av by 1886).[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi4tAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6]
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Category:Demolished railway stations in the United States
Category:Railway stations in Pennsylvania
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1883